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Auchmuty Collection

Delve into Ireland’s rich history and culture with the Auchmuty Collection. Featuring rare books, pamphlets, and journals from 1900 to 1950, this specialised resource explores Anglo-Irish relations, the Irish Free State, and more. A treasure trove for researchers, donated by Margaret Auchmuty in 1983.

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A map showing nottinghamshire

The large English atlas, or, A new set of maps of all the counties in England and Wales, 1785, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230779636

British and Irish maps for family historians

Learn how to access historical gazetteers, Ordnance Survey maps, and early atlases to uncover your family's origins in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.

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British Foreign Office Confidential Prints

Around 10,800 items from the period 1829-1922 ranging from a single page to hundreds of pages and documenting British reactions to particular events, problems and crises, as well as Britain's relations generally with particular countries and regions.

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British Radical Pamphlets

Over 3,000 printed pamphlets, leaflets and issues of periodicals, mostly published 1900-1970, plus a collection of microfiche and microfilm of other publications, produced by left-wing parties and organisations in the period 1961–88.

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Dryer Collection

2286 titles, mainly monographs but also including manuscripts and music material about the history of Ireland and Australia.

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Duncan-Hughes Collection

About 6200 books about European literature, history and culture, mostly published in the period 1880-1960. 

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Celia Craig, a woman with very short brown hair, smiling and holding large book of sheet music with the title 'Symphonic Overture'
Exploring the letters of legendary musician Miriam Hyde with Celia Craig

Read about Creative Arts Fellow Celia Craig's experience of exploring the papers of musician Miriam Hyde.

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Hall Collection

Personal papers and about 600 books and pamphlets from 1900-1960 on international relations, political biography, migration and more with a focus on the Commonwealth and United States. 

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Irish Pamphlet Collection

Pamphlets, tracts and leaflets published in Britain and Ireland between 1770 and 1976 that describe, debate and criticize the political, economic, social and religious affairs, divisions and conflicts in Ireland.

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Jamieson Collection

About 360 titles, particularly strong in first editions of English poetry and novels published in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

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Kashnor Collection

4000 books, 6000 pamphlets and sets of 40 periodicals published between about 1620 and 1940, including the works of the major English, Scottish and Irish political economists and writers. 

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Book cover illustration of "The Excellencies of Musick," featuring ornate cursive text and a classical drawing of a baroque music scene with performers and an elaborately decorated harpsichord.
Kassler Collection

Books on music and printed music published in Britain from the mid-17th century to the 20th century.

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